Blue is the Warmest Color – Cannes Lesbian Romance DramaStory of Young Woman’s Awakening Is Top Winner

From the stage, Steven Spielberg, the head of the competition jury, announced that he and the other jurists had decided to formally recognize not only the movie’s director, Abdellatif Kechiche, but also its two young actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. This unusual, perhaps unprecedented step acknowledged the contributions of both women, who appear naked in several sex scenes, but it also took some auteur sheen away from Mr. Kechiche, suggesting that the jury had engaged in intense back-room negotiations. For much of the festival the critical favorite had been “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a period story from Joel and Ethan Coen about a New York folk singer trying to make it in 1961. The Coens’ film won the Grand Prix, but they were not in attendance.

Mr. Kechiche, Ms. Exarchopoulos and Ms. Seydoux took the stage together to accept their award — although only one Palme was visible — and exchanged hugs and kisses as the audience cheered and clapped for several long minutes. The pillow-

lipped Ms. Exarchopoulos had been widely expected to win best actress, but that award instead went to a visibly surprised and shaking Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) for her role in “Le Passé,” a drama set in France from the Iranian director

Asghar Farhadi. Bruce Dern won best actor for Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska,” a wistful, black-and-white comedy about a fading alcoholic (Mr. Dern) and his melancholic, somewhat dyspeptic son (Will Forte) who, during an increasingly absurd and touching road trip, journey into the past.

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